AI robotics, and navigation technology manufacturer Advanced Navigation today announced its ambition to be the first Australian company whose products operate on the Moon through its development of unique navigation systems. CEO Xavier Orr said the company’s years of R&D had culminated in two systems that would deliver breakthroughs in performance, reliability, size, weight and…
Last week in our series Frontiers in additive manufacturing, Peter Roberts discussed the similarities between the impact of then-new CNC technologies in the 1980s to today’s growth in additive manufacturing. Today he talks with Bruce Rowley, whose company CNC Design was a pioneer in Australia’s adoption of both technologies. As Australian manufacturers first moved to…
Mineral processing technology company TNG Limited has received export finance funding for its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project project in the Northern Territory. The company received a conditional letter of support for up to $300 million in debt funding from Export Finance Australia. The funding will underpin financing of the project, one of 15 projects recognised…
International Atomic Energy officials have given a positive assessment of Australia building nuclear submarines in terms of threats of nuclear proliferation, and given general support to nuclear’s role in decarbonising the economy. IAEA director-general Rafael Grossi, speaking at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney, said he his visit to Australia had underlined the need…
Greenwashing is on the rise, and Australia’s regulations system for monitoring ‘green’ claims by manufacturers is not fit for purpose. Here Helen Millicer dissects the issues, and points to a system where claimed environmental benefits can be trusted by consumers and companies alike. Every day we see yet another company claiming environmental benefits with their…
South Australian space companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at launching a rocket and a spacecraft with an interfaced electronic warfare payload from the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex (WWOLC) near Port Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula.. Spaceport operator Southern Launch, ATSpace Australia, Asension (formerly DEWC Systems), and Inovor Technologies will utilise ATSpace’s…
Energy Storage Industries – Asia Pacific (ESI) has begun construction Australia’s first large-scale iron flow battery manufacturing facility.. A sod-turning ceremony in Maryborough marked the commencement of works at the site of what Deputy Premier Dr Steven Miles said would be a $70 million, state-of-the-art big battery manufacturing centre Dr Miles said: “Energy storage is…
Federal government ministers have committed the government to supporting the development of Australian defence industries and to collaboration between government and industry. The commitment was made by Minister for defence Richard Marles and minister for defence industry Pat Conroy at a defence industry roundtable event in Adelaide today. Marles, who is also deputy prime minister,…
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has successfully completed its second commercial rocket launch with NASA from its Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory. A NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 11:17 pm ACST July 6, 2022. The launch was for the Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from…
Electro Optic Systems subsidiary EOS Defense Systems USA (EOSDS USA) has been selected by the US Air Force as one of a group of companies allowed to compete for US$950 million worth of defence department contracts. The company will compete over a three year peripd, with a further five optional years, under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity…